TY - JOUR
T1 - Feminist Encounters with Evolutionary Psychology
AU - O'Neill, Rachel
N1 - This article was published as a result of research undertaken while I was a PhD candidate at King's College London.
PY - 2016/4/8
Y1 - 2016/4/8
N2 - This Section of Australian Feminist Studies is the product of an event that took place at King’s College London in January 2015, hosted as part of the UK-based ‘Critical Sexology’ seminar series. Participants at this event – feminist scholars working across the fields of lin- guistics, cultural studies, sociology, and psychology – were invited to reflect on their encounters with evolutionary psychology (EP). As the event organiser, I was interested to prompt a discussion about how EP shapes the contours of contemporary feminist scholarship, insofar as arguments from EP are something feminist scholars continually find ourselves coming across and coming up against both within and outside the academy. Conversely, I was interested in thinking about how encounters with EP might illuminate certain limit-points in contemporary feminist theorising.
AB - This Section of Australian Feminist Studies is the product of an event that took place at King’s College London in January 2015, hosted as part of the UK-based ‘Critical Sexology’ seminar series. Participants at this event – feminist scholars working across the fields of lin- guistics, cultural studies, sociology, and psychology – were invited to reflect on their encounters with evolutionary psychology (EP). As the event organiser, I was interested to prompt a discussion about how EP shapes the contours of contemporary feminist scholarship, insofar as arguments from EP are something feminist scholars continually find ourselves coming across and coming up against both within and outside the academy. Conversely, I was interested in thinking about how encounters with EP might illuminate certain limit-points in contemporary feminist theorising.
U2 - 10.1080/08164649.2016.1157909
DO - 10.1080/08164649.2016.1157909
M3 - Article
SN - 1465-3303
VL - 30
SP - 345
EP - 350
JO - Australian Feminist Studies
JF - Australian Feminist Studies
IS - 86
ER -